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The International Security Policy Concentration (ISP) requires 15 points, consisting of 5 three-point courses: 1 core course; 1 from options in Group A: General Problems in International Security and Conflict Management; 1 from options in Group B: Use of Force; 2 electives (preferably including a course on security issues in a particular country or region).

A preliminary list of eligible courses is listed below; please refer to the Directory of Classes for the scheduling and availability of the courses.

ISP Concentration Core Requirements - 3 courses required

Course Number

Course Title

POLS W4895

War, Peace, and Strategy (core required course)

Group A

(select from list below)

Group B

(select from list below)

ISP Concentration Electives - select 2 courses from below (Group A, B, or C, or other with Concentration Director approval)

Group A: General Problems in International Security and Conflict Management
(choose at least one)

Course Number

Course Title

INAF U4545

Contemporary Diplomacy

INAF U6389

State Formation, Violence and Intervention in the Modern World

INAF U6416

Third World Security Issues

INAF U6440

Peace Operations in Fragile States

INAF U6568

Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy

INAF U6680

U.S. Energy Security: Geopolitics of Oil and Gas

INAF U8132

Understanding Intelligence Operations

INAF U8142

Intelligence and Foreign Policy

INAF U8738

Peacemaking and Peacekeeping

INAF U8818

International Ethics

POLS G6801

Theories of International Relations

POLS G8844

Nationalism

POLS G8864

Cooperation and Security

LAW L9377

Enforcing International Law

Group B: Use of Force
(choose at least one)

Course Number

Course Title

INAF U6228

Cybersecurity

INAF U6285

Methods for Defense Analysis and Assessment

INAF U6345

Analytical Techniques in Military Policy

INAF U6378

Evolution of Terrorism

INAF U6387

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

INAF U6388

Urban Counter-Terrorism/Modern Urban Terrorism

INAF U6393

Evolving Military Strategy Post-9/11

INAF U6399

Weapons of Mass Destruction


INAF U6799

Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict

INAF U6805

Limited War and Low Intensity Conflict

INAF U6880

Planning U.S. Military Forces

INAF U8879

Technology and National Security

Group C: Electives
(choose at least two of any of the courses listed above, below, or in the official ISP Information Bulletin)

Course Number

Course Title

INAF U6221

Navigating by Starlight: Challenges of Conflict Resolution

INAF U6222

Intelligence Estimates and National Security (1.5 pts.)

INAF U6346

Role of the United States in World Affairs, I

INAF U6347

U.S. Role in World Affairs

INAF U6388

Modern Urban Terrorism

INAF U6394

Writing About War

INAF U6445

Talking with the Enemy

INAF U6564

Applied Peacebuilding: Fieldwork

INAF U6798

Central Issues in American Foreign Policy

INAF U6802

International Law

INAF U8136

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf

INAF U8415

U.S.-Latin American Relations: WWII-Present

INAF U8507

Security Council/Peacekeeping - Africa in the 21st Century

INAF U8561

War Termination and the Stability of Peace

INAF U8565

European Security

INAF U8738

Peacemaking/Peacekeeping

INAF U8799

Reporting Conflicts (1.5 pts.)

INAF U8885

Conflict Assessment

INAF U8867

International Enforcement and the Security Council

PUAF U6801

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

REGN U6644

The Idea of Political Islam

REGN U8595

Persian Gulf in the 20th Century

HIST G8712

The United States, the Middle East & the Cold War

HIST G8235

Islam Across Eurasia

HIST W3377

International and Global History Since World War II

HIST W3491

U.S. Foreign Relations, 1890-1990

LAW L6458

National Security Law

POLS W4871

Chinese Foreign Policy

POLS G8811

Civil Wars

POLS G8843

International Law and International Relations

POLS G8876

US-Japan Relations from WWII to Present

INAF U6396

Mediation of Armed Conflict

INAF U8909

Environment, Conflict and Resolution Strategies

ORLG J6040 Fundamental of Cooperation, Conflict Resolution and Mediation in Different Institutional Contexts
JOUR J6014

Covering Conflict

LAW L9001

UN Peacekeeping

INAF U6378

Evolution of Terrorism

POLS G8833

Law of War

INAF U6556

UN: Challenges and Alternatives

INAF U6712

Political Islam

INAF U8559

Building Peace After Conflict (1.5 pts.)

LAW L6410

Constitution and Foreign Affairs

LAW L6549

Terror and Consent

LAW L8079

Jurisprudence of War

POLS G8865

United States Foreign Policy

HIST W3719

History of the Modern Middle East

REGN U4690

Palestinian and Israeli Security Dilemmas

INAF U6430

East Asian Security

INAF U6727

Deconstructing Afghanistan

REGN U8750

Political Transition in the Former Soviet Union

REGN U8757

Ukrainian Foreign Policy

POLS G8205

History of East-West Relations in Post WWII Europe

POLS W4808

Weapons, Strategy, and War

POLS G8844

Nationalism

POLS G88xx

The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism

REGN U8700

Political Leadership in International Relations

INAF U6866

Conflict in Africa (not offered 2012-2013)

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